Note 17 — HISTORICAL RECORD
Reading edition
Number of men which landed at the Cape of Good Hope in January, 1806, under Major-General Sir David Baird:—
Brigades. Regiments. Number landed, including Recruits for India, attached.
1st. Commanded by { Twenty-fourth 600
Brigadier-General { Thirty-eighth 900
Beresford { Eighty-third 800
2nd. Under { Seventy-first 800
Brigadier-General { Seventy-second 600
Ferguson { Ninety-third 800
Fifty-ninth 900
Company’s recruits 200
Seamen and marines 1100
Artillery 200
Twentieth Light Dragoons 300
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Total. 7200